Connecticut · Nonprofit
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,719 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $147k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $246k
What The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote initiatives that enhance and enrich education and economic opportunities, especially for children and families, in the Chamber service area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Holiday Gala is the Foundations largest annual fundraiser, which collects funds through tickets, sponsorships, auctions, and donations in order to provide grants to nonprofit organizations whose mission and programs align with those of the Foundation. These grants are the Foundation's single largest expense. The Bowlathon is a smaller fundraiser whose proceeds support the Foundation's annual scholarship fund for high school students in eastern Connecticut.
$150,089 spent93% of program spendingLeadership program provides training to individuals to promote community involvement and service to the Southeastern CT region.
$10,944 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $161,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $248k to $323k (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Lou Ziegler
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $25k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $114k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
30%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc?
- The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,719 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $113,719 in grants to The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing